World Book Club Podcast
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
Episodes to download
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Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
Sat 2 May 2020
The rise and fall of Cromwell, the most powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII
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Fatima Bhutto - The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Sat 4 Apr 2020
Five young Pakistani men and women try to live and love in a world on fire
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Le茂la Slimani - Lullaby
Sun 8 Mar 2020
An acclaimed French thriller which probes at the fault lines of gender, class and race
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Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory
Sun 2 Feb 2020
A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution
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Naomi Alderman - The Power
Sun 5 Jan 2020
A speculative fiction imagining women and a new 鈥榩ower鈥� helps them take over the world
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Jenny Erpenbeck - Visitation
Sun 8 Dec 2019
The horrors of twentieth century Germany filtered through the beauty of one house
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David Nicholls - Us
Sun 3 Nov 2019
David Nicholls talks about his internationally successful novel 'Us'.
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H茅ctor Abad - Oblivion
Sun 6 Oct 2019
A tribute to the author's father who was murdered by Columbian paramilitaries in 1987
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Ann Cleeves - Raven Black
Sun 8 Sep 2019
Ann Cleeves discusses her novel Raven Black with Harriett Gilbert and the WBC audience
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Chigozie Obioma - The Fishermen
Sun 4 Aug 2019
Acclaimed Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma talks about his novel The Fishermen
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Andrea Levy - Small Island
Sun 7 Jul 2019
Another chance to hear Andrea Levy talking about her prize-winning novel Small Island.
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Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved
Sun 2 Jun 2019
Award-winning writer Siri Hustvedt discusses her novel What I Loved with the WBC audience.
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Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice
Sun 5 May 2019
Donna Leon discusses her celebrated novel Death at La Fenice.
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Tessa Hadley - The Past
Sun 7 Apr 2019
British author Tessa Hadley talks to Harriett Gilbert about her award-winning novel.
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Ng农g末 wa Thiong'o - A Grain of Wheat
Sat 9 Mar 2019
A special edition from Nairobi University's bustling bookshop, where Ngugi was a director.
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JoJo Moyes - Me Before You
Sun 3 Feb 2019
JoJo Moyes discusses her wildly popular novel Me Before You
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Lee Child - Killing Floor
Sun 6 Jan 2019
Leading thriller writer Lee Child discusses Killing Floor and its hero Jack Reacher
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Chan Koonchung - The Fat Years
Sun 2 Dec 2018
Chan Koonchung joins the World Book Club to discuss his dystopian novel The Fat Years
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Lijia Zhang: Lotus
Sun 4 Nov 2018
In Beijing discussing Lotus, about a migrant worker who ends up a prostitute in Shenzen
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Kate Atkinson: Life After Life
Sat 6 Oct 2018
Kate Atkinson discusses her celebrated novel Life After Life
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James Ellroy - American Tabloid
Sat 1 Sep 2018
American Tabloid exposes the underbelly of a country on the brink of Kennedy's golden age
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Hilary Mantel: Bring Up the Bodies
Sat 4 Aug 2018
World Book Club discusses Bring Up the Bodies with Man Booker prize-winner Hilary Mantel
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Anuradha Roy: An Atlas of Impossible Longing
Sat 7 Jul 2018
Indian writer Anuradha Roy discusses her much-loved novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing
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Amy Bloom: Away
Sat 2 Jun 2018
Writer Amy Bloom's novel, Away, is a searing tale of migration, exile, and motherhood
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Sarah Waters: Tipping the Velvet
Sat 5 May 2018
Harriett Gilbert talks to British writer Sarah Waters about her novel, Tipping the Velvet
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Celeste Ng: Everything I Never Told You
Sat 7 Apr 2018
Celeste Ng discusses her bestsellling novel Everything I Never Told You
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Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Sat 3 Mar 2018
Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz on his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Jackie Kay: Trumpet
Sat 3 Feb 2018
This month World Book Club talks to Scottish poet Laureate Jackie Kay
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Agatha Christie
Sat 6 Jan 2018
Sophie Hannah and James Prichard discuss Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
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Richard Flanagan: Narrow Road to the Deep North
Sat 2 Dec 2017
Richard Flanagan talks about his Man Booker Prize-winning novel
Ten Amazing Interviews
Favourite episodes of World Book Club, featuring Maya Angelou and Henning Mankell.
Crime Fiction
Henning Mankel, Patrica Cornwell, Jo Nesbo: stars of the genre discuss their craft.
Tales from History
From the tulip fields of 17th Century Amsterdam to the trenches of World War One.
